[cheers and applause] make it to invest out educating, out innovating and out building our competitors overseas. a strong america depends on a party. let's review the history. senator mitch mcconnell, the republic leader in the senate said the republics number one priority was the defeat of president obama. [booing] not the defeat of terrorism. not the creation of jobs, not the reduction of our debt and deficit, not ensuring access to healthcare, not educating our children, not tending to the needs of americans with disabilities. but to simply defeat our president. [booing] as the reverend jesse jackson describes it, they want to drown the captain and are prepared to sink the ship to do so. for four years republics in congress have pursued a strategy of confrontation, obstruction, and a refusal to compromise. that's why not a single house republic voted for the law that brought our economy back from the brink. that's why president obama's jobs plan was not even put on the house floor. instead of trying to fix the problem, the republics, unfortunately, played politics. but despite histo